Luke Tennis

About Me

In January 2014 my story, "Go Long," won first place out of over 600 entries in the Tuscon Book Festival literary contest. Other recent writing awards include a fiction writing grant from the Maryland Arts Council and a novella award from St. Andrews Press, which published my novella, Bernardo the Daredevil. I've won fellowships to Bread Loaf and Ragdale and elsewhere and placed high in a Glimmer Train contest and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. A list of some of my stories published online is below:

1-http://juked.com/2013/04/luke-tennis-baltimore-roulette.asp

2-http://www.northwindmagazine.com/contents/6/tokens.html

3-http://www.avatarreview.net/AV9/Tennis.htm

4-http://thecatalonianreview.wordpress.com/2012/10/19/volume-iv/

5-http://www.wordriot.org/template_2.php?ID=1308

6-http://jmww.150m.com/Tennis.html

7-http://www.eclectica.org/v9n3/tennis.html

I've also published stories in a number of literary magazines, including Puerto Del Sol, Connecticut Review, and Northwest Review.

I'm lucky enough to be married to a wonderful doctor which allows me to be a house husband for our children (7 and 6), and which gives me time to write. Currently I'm finishing a draft of a novel and working on short stories.

Why do you write?

1. Reading.
2. Can't help it.

Any favorite authors? Books?

Saul Bellow, Stanley Elkin, Barry Hannah. Just finished Joy Williams' Breaking and Entering. Blood Meridian, Airships, Stop-Time (Frank Conroy), all of Charles Portis, Jesus' Son, Play It As It Lays, Fat City, Day of the Locusts, Jim Harrison, Lolita (of course), and a bunch more.